Play It Safe

It's the age of the Internet, and you need protection. Tiny
Personal Firewall can help. Available as a download from Tiny Software's Web site, the
Firewall is free for personal use and $39 for business use. (Volume
discounts are available.)

Alone, the Firewall isn't a standout product, but it gets
more valuable when used in conjunction with Tiny Software's
Central Console product. Together, the two form Tiny's
Centrally Managed Desktop Security System, which allows your
company's network administrator to control the security levels
of all firewall users in the company. Even better, it lets your
administrator monitor activity on the company's network or an
individual's desktop-meaning he or she will know who's
working and who's not.

A Better Backup

Give your hard drive its very own mini-me.

Backing up your hard drive doesn't have to be hard work.
Drive Image 4.0, an easy-to-use disk-cloning application from
PowerQuest, creates and
stores images of a hard drive or individual partitions.

Version 4.0 also fixes one of the biggest problems in previous
versions of Drive Image: where to store the huge file you've
created. The image file can be compressed, but it still takes up a
lot of space. (My test file was almost 2GB in size.) Drive Image
4.0 lets you save that image to a CD-R and CD-RW, or multiple CDs,
if necessary.

The $69.95 (street) program has a quirk: It runs in DOS, not
Windows. But the latest version is compatible with all the latest
versions of Windows.

New Releases

Lost and Found: Get back
the important files you accidently deleted with Undelete 2.0. Price: $49.95 (all
prices street); volume discounts are available.